Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand : A City in the Colonial Margins (Paperback)

Acknowledgements, Note on Transliteration and Sources, Introduction: Living in the City, The Urban Space of Chiang Mai, Organization of the Book, 1 The City Founded: A Deep Urban History of Chiang Mai, Urban Genesis in the Mainland, The Foundation of the New City, Center, Hinterland, Region, Conclusion, 2 The City Stabilized: The Kawila Restoration and Chiang Mai in the Nineteenth, Century, Chiang Mai Abandoned, Chiang Mai Rebuilt, The Nineteenth Century Logic(s) of Chiang Mai's Urban Space, Conclusion, 3 The Region Transformed: Forests and Foreigners and State Formation in Chiang Mai and The North, Lanna's Second Golden Age, Shifting the Balance, Siamese State Formation in the North &?A Silent Revolution?, Conclusion, 4 The City Reshaped: Power and Urban Space in Micro-Colonial Chiang Mai, Spaces of Power &?The Old Town, Chiang Mai and the development of a Dual City?, Spatial Transitions, Conclusion, 5 The New City and the New State: Chiang Mai's Sacred Space and Siam, The Decline of Sacro-Spatial Legitimacy in the Chiang Mai State, Khruba Siwichai, the State, and the Restoration of Sacred Space(s), Conclusion, Conclusion: The Heart of the City, Bibliography, Index